IS CHESTNUT BLOSSOM THE NEW APHRODISIAC?

THE SCENT OF PLEASURE

THE SCENT OF CHESTNUT BLOSSOM WAS ASSOCIATED WITH LOVE-MAKING CENTURIES AGO

HAVE WE UNCOVERED A TABOO?

THE MARQUIS DE SADE PUBLISHED 'THE CHESTNUT FLOWER' IN HIS 'HISTORIETTES, CONTES ET FABLIAUX' OF 1788. IN IT A TEENAGE GIRL, WALKING IN THE WOODS WITH HER MOTHER, SEEMS TO RECOGNISE THE PERFUME. HER MOTHER TRIES TO STOP HER TALKING about it BECAUSE THE GIRL HAD RECOGNISED THE SMELL OF SEX.

WHAT'S THE SCENT?

CHESTNUT BLOSSOM IS RICH, VELVETY AND VOLUPTUOUS; MORE NUTTY AND MYSTERIOUS THAN LINDEN OR ACACIA. NEAR THE SEA IN LIGURIA IT HAS A SALTY TANG WHICH IS CAPTURED IN LARIA.

APHRODISIAC:

SOME OF OUR CLIENTS HAVE WRITTEN TO US SAYING THAT THERE IS SOMETHING SENSUAL AND ATTRACTIVE TO THIS NOTE IN LARIA. IT REMINDS US OF A GOOD TIME IN THE WOODS IN SUMMER. FRIENDS HAVE DILUTED LARIA IN A MASSAGE OIL AND EXPERIENCED THE SCENT WITH THEIR PARTNER. THE MOST SENSUAL PLACE WE HEARD A CUSTOMER USING A FEW DROPS OF DILUTED LARIA OIL WAS UNDER HER BREASTS AFTER A SHOWER: "IT FEELS FRESH AND WARM ON ME AT THE SAME TIME!"

A NEW MUSK:

THE MOST FAMOUS APHRODISIAC IN PERFUMERY WAS MUSK: THE GLAND OF A MALE DEER. THIS IS NOW ILLEGAL AND REPLACED BY CHEMICAL copieS.

WE THINK CHESTNUT BLOSSOM IS A REDISCOVERED, CRUELTY-FREE APHRODISIAC.